Our Community Research Project provides participants of all ages with the opportunity to investigate an open problem and publish their results. This semester, we are investigating the following topic: How can we construct a fair three-sided cylindrical die? For example, a "short" cylinder will almost always land on one of the ends and rarely on the side. A tall cylinder will almost always land on its side and rarely on an end. How should we construct the die so that if we label the ends with "1" and "2" and the side with "3" each number will have an equal chance of coming up?
Dates: Sep 13, 2009 – Dec 6, 2009
Notre Dame Community Building
